Steve Edwards. Steve grew up in Oxford Ohio and worked on the Quincy, Jean and Roger Butterfield farm at an early age. After graduating from Miami’s business school he started and ran a non-profit recycling center for ten years. Getting back into farming, Steve worked on grain, vegetable, dairy and pastured beef farms.  An interesting experience was working for Cargill at its Ohio River barge loading facility. He has served on Oxford City Council, planning commissions, and the Ohio Ecological Food and Farming Association board.
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Steve and his wife Cori Yaeger have lived east of Lebanon for 9 years. Cori is a beekeeper and plants native flowers, shrubs, and trees.  Steve was pleased to be named a 2018 Cooperator for cover crop work on the Welling’s White Oak Farm.  He appreciates the current WCSWCD trustees’ good leadership and supports their conservation implementation and educational programming.   

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Jason Spellmire.  Jason  farms 1500 acres in Turtlecreek Township with his dad, Bill. Jason is the third generation to farm his family’s land. His interest in conservation was inspired by the example of his uncle, Tom Spellmire, a longtime Warren County supervisor, and also by his father’s care for the land. 
 
Before returning to farm in Warren County, Jason graduated cum laude from Dartmouth College and served on active duty as a US Army officer. Besides farming, Jason’s pastimes include wildlife habitat restoration, structurally unsound woodworking projects, chasing after his dog, and listening to the Reds blow it in the ninth. He is lucky to be married to Hannah, who luckily for him did not grow up on a farm and so never received the sound advice to “never marry a farmer”. 

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